A 63-year-old woman in Xuzhou City died on March 28, 2018, after suffering years of repeated arrests and imprisonment for refusing to renounce Falun Gong, a spiritual discipline being persecuted by the Chinese communist regime.

An 82-year-old gentleman in Anshan City received a phone call from Liaoning Province Women’s Prison at 10:20 a.m. on March 8, 2018. He was told that his imprisoned daughter, Ms. Sun Min, had suddenly lost consciousness after breakfast that morning and was receiving emergency treatment at the prison hospital.

In their attempts to force Ms. Gao Suzhen to give up her spiritual belief in Falun Gong, prison guards forced her to watch as they sexually abused another practitioner, causing Ms. Gao to suffer a mental breakdown.

Mr. Huang Huixian of Huizhou, Guangdong Province, died two months after he was arrested on June 26, 2017, leaving his wife and their 10-year-old son on their own. His body remains in a funeral facility. He was 40.

Ms. Se Guirong from Hanjiayuan Town was frequently arrested and detained for practising Falun Gong. After being imprisoned and tortured for a total of eight years, she died at the age of 58 on January 23, 2018, six months after her latest release from prison.

Mr. Wang Wenzhong’s sister received a call from Ji’nan Prison at 11 a.m. on January 12, 2018, saying that her brother had just died. She rushed to the prison to view her brother’s remains, already in the prison’s mortuary.

On the last day of 2017, a service was held at the Jinzhou City Funeral Home for Ms. Wang Yanqiu, who had died two days before. Because she refused to give up her belief in Falun Gong, a mind and body practice that is banned in China, she had been imprisoned and tortured until becoming unresponsive. Her son was grief-stricken.